Sauber C21
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The Sauber C21 was a Formula 1 racing car, the Sauber Motorsport began in the 2002 Formula 1 World Championship.
Development history and technology
The C21 was designed by Willy Rampf and was the logical development of the C20. To the development objectives included the reduction of vehicle weight, a low center of gravity, a verwindungssteiferes chassis and improvements to transmission and engine components as well as environment of the suspension. 2002 Sauber received exclusive customer engines from Ferrari. For use the 3- liter V10 engines of the 051 that were utilized at the Scuderia in 2001 F2001 of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello came. Ferrari built 40 new engines for Sauber, who were branded sponsor of reasons as Petronas 02A V10. Under the contract, paid Sauber for one year 13 million British pounds for the aggregates at Ferrari.
The drivers there was a change. Kimi Raikkonen had left the team after just one year. The retired end of 2001 McLaren driver Mika Häkkinen had his former team his countryman Raikkonen recommended which was subsequently bought out from the existing Sauber contract. For him, the young Brazilian Felipe Massa came into the team, who had denied any Formula 1 Grand Prix. Nick Heidfeld stayed with Sauber.
Racing history
His racing debut of the C21 at the Australian Grand Prix in March 2002 at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne. In qualifying achieved the Sauber drivers ranks Nine ( Massa) and Ten ( Heidfeld ). On the fastest lap time driven by Rubens Barrichello in the Ferrari F2001, missing more than two seconds. In the race, both drivers were involved in a collision at the start and fell in the very first lap of the race from. But already in the second race of the season, the Malaysian Grand Prix, there were the first points of the new Clean - race model. Nick Heidfeld was fifth and Felipe Massa finished the race event in sixth place, which he had already reached the first World Championship points in the second race start.
The further course of the season evolved changeable. On one hand, the C21 suffered from technical problems and on the other hand, better race positions were prevented by error of the pilots. Massa had some self-inflicted accidents and collisions. At the Grand Prix of Italy he collided in the 15 round with the Jaguar R3B Pedro de la Rosa and received for the next World Cup, the U.S. Grand Prix a disciplinary transfer by ten grid positions. In order to circumvent this a race Heinz -Harald Frentzen was hired for this, who finished the race in 13th.
In the Drivers' World Championship Nick Heidfeld finished the season in tenth place (7 points) and Felipe Massa was 13 (4 points). In the championship construct your ranged eleven points for the fifth overall place.